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Scarborough Marsh is a 3,200-acre saltwater marsh owned by the state of Maine and managed by the state's Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife as a wildlife management area. [1] It is situated in southern Maine, in the town of Scarborough , in Cumberland County .
In 1989, the refuge boundary expanded to include salt marsh, freshwater wetlands, and "critical edge" uplands around each of the nine divisions. In addition, the Biddeford Pool Division, the tenth division of the refuge, was created. This division serves as a key staging area in southern Maine for a large number and diversity of shorebirds.
The marsh is 15% of the state's total tidal marsh area and the largest contiguous marsh in Maine. The state owns and manages a 3,100-acre (13 km 2) reserve, of which 2,700 acres (11 km 2) is salt marsh, about 200 acres (0.81 km 2) is upland habitats, with the remainder being other types of wetlands. The marsh is an excellent site for birding as ...
Scarborough River is a 3.7-mile-long (6.0 km) [1] coastal estuary and river draining through the Scarborough Marsh in Scarborough, Maine.It empties into Saco Bay between Pine Point Beach and Western Beach and marks the bay's northern end. [2]
Wells Reserve is located along the coast of the Gulf of Maine. The land managed by the reserve includes fields, forests, salt marsh, tidal freshwater marsh, and sandy beaches. [2] The reserve includes the campus of Laudholm Farm, which serves as the reserve's headquarters. Laudholm Farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Scarborough is a town in Cumberland County on the southern coast of the U.S. state of Maine. Located about 7 miles (11 km) south of Portland, Scarborough is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford, Maine metropolitan statistical area. The population was 22,135 at the 2020 census, [2] making it the most populous town in Maine. [3]
The Dunstan River is a 6.0-mile-long (9.7 km) [1] river in the town of Scarborough in Cumberland County, Maine, USA. Its lower portion flows through salt marshes and it is a tributary of the tidal Scarborough River.
The Nonesuch River is a 24.9-mile-long (40.1 km) [1] river in southern Maine in the United States.It rises in Saco and travels northeast, then east, then southwest through the town of Scarborough, becoming the primary source of fresh water to the Scarborough Marsh and the Scarborough River.